"Sa-Sasuke…"
I felt dead on the inside. I looked up when I heard Naruto's familiar voice at the door.
Who cared what he thought, anyway? I wiped the blood from my wrist and hung my head. He shouldn't matter, but he did. I had a reputation to hold in front of him, even if he should just be like everyone else---someone I hate. I stuffed the kunai back inside my pocket and looked up at him. Why was he crying? What did this have to do with him? Why was I crying?
I wasn't crying from the pain. I wanted the pain. I wiped my eyes with the back of my hand, causing a small bit of blood to drip from the wound I'd put on myself.
"Sasuke…" he said again.
I looked away from him. This was hurting me more than I'd wanted. Why did he matter so much?
I heard him stumble over to me, and sit down.
"Sasuke," he repeated, "I don't understand---"
"Of course you don't understand!" I yelled. Why was I so angry all of a sudden? "You have no idea what I've been through! You have no idea!" Why was I crying? "You have no idea! No idea… No…" I couldn't speak anymore. I was sobbing. I hunched over and tried to muffle the sounds my cries were making. I couldn't let myself break down in front of someone like this. I had to pretend to be alright, like I always did.
"Sasuke," he repeated in a whisper, "Just… Tell me."
Since when was he so mature? I continued to cry, my heaving sobs growing softer.
"I want to know," he whispered. Why was he being so nice to me? Why can't he hate me, tell me I don't need to live?
"I…" I started through tears, "I…"
I felt arms wrap around me.
He was hugging me.
I continued to cry into his shoulder. All sound was muffled as I finally let out the emotions that had been building up for years now. I felt his tears drop on my shoulder as I cried.
I cried. It felt good to finally let all of this go.
And he was hugging me.
It felt good to finally have a friend.
A real friend.
Gah, I need to stop making random really short emo one-shots. O.o And no, that wasn't supposed to be yaoi. It's just surprisingly hard to write friendships between two guys. O.o
Review please, even if you hated it! n.n Wow, I'm retarded. I just accidentally stepped on one of my cats' tails, and they freaked out, and I was just like, "………BWAHAHAHA!"
It was totally random. Yeah, again, review please! Come on, just click the little button on the bottom left… You can do it!